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At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
William Golding
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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Newquay
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William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
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Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
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I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
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How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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Worse than madness. Sanity.
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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